Family news

 I have been sick with a cold that exacerbated my asthma, but am now better.

Was it just a cold, or covid? Don't know, don't care: I self isolate anyway since I rarely leave the house, but it does mean I won't go to church this week. And I have gotten similar problem many times over the last twenty five years, long before covid existed.

Dr Angie reports that our cook's daughter who works in her office has covid, and is in isolation. So she texted us to tell us to have Dita our cook to be tested for Covid. (Dita sleeps in the medical office to guard the clinic at night) .

The cook laughed and refused, saying that Angie was not God. 

???

Translation: if she tests positive then she has to self isolate and she can't work (and that means she can't divert a lot of the money for our food into her pockets to support her large extended family).

Our maid was sick last week, with myalgia and fever but no cold symptoms, so we thought it was dengue, which is right now epidemic here, and our secretary had similar symptomes last week.

 There is also an epidemic of diarrhea among the young children, and reports are that the local city hospital is full, so it means either to go to a private hospital or to the next city. Several people came here asking for help in expenses.

Sigh.

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in other news, my son just met one of his cousins who was, like him, adopted by people in the USA. 

Apparantly she was born blind, and the family, who was poor and had many kids, put her up for adoption, figuring that it would give her a better chance at life, and a kind American family adopted her.

So how did he discover this?

He sent his DNA to be tested by one of those ancestry type sites, and they said there was a close match in another person who had been tested, so he got in touch with her. 

Unlike my son, who was older and kept in touch with his birth family in Colombia, she never met her birth family. Sigh.